Sunday, September 12, 2010

I've now added the initial revision of the OGR MS SQL Spatial driver to the GDAL repository. For further information please refer to the driver information page.
Working binaries (which always contain all the recent fixes) can be downloaded from the daily build system available at: http://vbkto.dyndns.org/sdk/

Since I didn't have the chance to test with all kind of the fancy spatial data types any feedback on the potential issues are graciously accepted.

Upon the experiences gathered when writing this driver, I'm also planning to add support for accessing the native SqlGeometry/SqlGeography serialization format in the MapServer sql2008 driver which appears to provide a significant increment in the performance of the data retrieval.

About Me

My name is Tamas Szekeres, I am an open source geospatial software developer from Hungary who has been working on several GIS related projects up to the present. I'm a long term contributor / project steering committe member / C# interface maintainer of the GDAL and MapServer projects for years.